Pregnant women sometimes experience back and hip pain. If you'd like information on the possible causes of back pain during pregnancy and how osteopathy may be able to help, you may find this page useful. I'd like to mention a recent study that …
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Exercise Is Essential for Osteoarthritis
Patients who have osteoarthritis sometimes hear conflicting things. To exercise or not to exercise, that is the question! The evidence is very clear: exercise! We should all be moving as much as we can, regardless of any changes we may see on X-rays. …
Sleep matters
Encouraging healthy sleep Everyone knows the feeling after a bad night’s sleep, from irritability to unproductivity, but longer lasting sleep disruption can have a much more significant effect on both our mental wellbeing and our …
Obituary – Prof Gordon Waddell
I was recently informed by a colleague of the recent death of Prof Gordon Waddell. He was one of the pioneers in the revolution of back pain management, including with his book "The back pain revolution" [1]. Gordon wrote a seminal paper entitled …
Tendinitis
Tendinopathy, tendinitis, tenosynovitis... many words that are often used interchangeably and may not mean much to you. It is often unclear what these words mean and patients are often unclear on what they should do if they have one of them. Blogs …
Professional Doctorate in Osteopathy
Having trained as an osteopath and graduated in 2007, I was awarded a Professional Doctorate in Osteopathy at the end of 2016. During this five-year, part-time degree, I conducted research on low back pain. I first looked at why we develop low …